Items at some libraries:
- Kill-a-Watt voltage meter
- Radon detector
- Telescope
- Microscope with slides
- Board games
- Cooking appliances
- T-Mobile-powered, infini-data hotspot devices that can fit in your pocket and provide Internet
You can rent a kill-a-watt??? Thats dope as shit
Borrow*
Thanks :)
My cousin uses the library to get art to hang on their wall. Good stuff too, their library’s got a good curator.
Permanent art that isn’t lent out? How?
People are baffled when I say I use the library. They’re brainwashed by big tech to think that “no one uses that now” . Pretty frustrating since its the only 3rd space left and people are trying to get it shut down (why should MY taxes pay for that!! We have INTERNET ).
I hate people.
I think “borrow” has a bad connotation in the US. Like: “beg, borrow or steal”. But people should remember that it’s theirs, they paid for it with their taxes, they’re just sharing it with others.
My local library is right next to a couple schools and, in the afternoons, functions as a really wholesome third space for a fair number of kids. Both free and hopefully inspires several of them to get into reading as a hobby.
Even if I didn’t use the library, that would be an excellent use of my tax dollars.
Some even have 3D printers
A lot of them come with free access to Kanopy or Hoopla which are streaming services with movies and TV shows that you log into with your library card
Someone reposting this like a year ago actually was what got me to get mine. Now I use Libby and get audiobooks etc from the library, it’s pretty sweet and was all free.
I made once the dumb mistake of getting my library card right before moving to another city, and never ever checked if it’s valid or repurposable since (three years now).
Well, time to fix that!
Yeah do that! They are free and I have a collection of library cards from every place I have lived. You never know when you will be on the run from the law and need to, I don’t know, read a book or something.
As neofascism is going worldwide, chances are if I have to run from the law it’s going to be because I read a book! XD
But yeah, totes doing that likely this Friday, since I’ll be around the place anyway.
Libraries are theft. A person reads a book and the same book is given to another person! Libraries, on average steal [arbitrary number] from publishers.
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For some reason all 5 libraries in distance of me close at 6pm and I work until 9pm so yeah.
Register online if you can.
Our local library aside from books provides spaces for making things
Found so many of my favorite CD’s there in high school. Crystal Method, Linkin Park, Silversun Pickups, Breaking Benjamin, Three Days Grace, Creed, Stone Sour, Train, Daft Punk.
Our library was an awesome source independent and foreign films. They were perfect shape bc so underused. We took out 10 at a time.
“rent CD”
You mean… “borrow”? “Rent” implies payment.
Also. Who the fuck is borrowing CD’s, what is this, 1999?
Physical media is coming back because owning is better than licensing.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
Walk into any music store. Or bookstore. Or a Half Price Books, which sells both. People are sick of paying for the capricious hands of streaming to tell them what they’re allowed to watch or read or listen to on any given day.
Walk into a specialised sex-store for a very specific fetish, and you’ll see lots of people with that very specific fetish.
I don’t think that would mean that the fetish is taking over society.
Yes, I know that some people value physical media. But most don’t. Most people value convenience. That’s what enables enshittification. If everyone was actually as sensitive to corporate bullshit as the people who you’re talking about, corporate bullshit wouldn’t survive.
Most people are idiots. What can you do?
I know that some people value physical media. But most don’t. Most people value convenience.
I’m not talking about “everyone in the world,” I’m talking about “more people than ten years ago.”
I recognize that the internet is allergic to context and nuance, but seriously.
I’m not talking about “everyone in the world,” I’m talking about “more people than ten years ago.”
Yes, I understand what you mean. I still don’t think you could find numbers to support that. While some of the people who are interested or even aware of the ideas that we’re talking about, sort of media erasure and who actually even owns the thing you’re watching, I’d argue those people are a tiny minority. I’d argue that for instance, my grandma and dad passing away in the last few but I’ve gained a niece and nephew, the population of my family has stayed essentially the same, but now there’s two people less who have ever even listened to physical media, let alone still owning it.
So I’m just… politely disagreeing with you. I understand I might be mistaken, but I’m pretty confident I’m not. I think the niche is smaller than the change in attitudes towards technology. Hell, 10 years ago quite a lot of people my age still had DVD’s, but that’s way less common in the general population now. Movie buffs, maybe, but I don’t know any anymore who actually collect movies. Or well, I suspect I do, but like people I use to be friends 10-15 years ago. Or like technically probably still am, depending on your definition.
Anyway, that’s the way I see it and unless we get facts on the table from somewhere, I don’t see how we could agree in this.
So I’m just… politely disagreeing with you.
Honestly…this is the first time in a decade or more that I’ve actually believed anyone online who said something like that. Hey, you’re cool. I like this sort of disagreement.
Anyway, that’s the way I see it and unless we get facts on the table from somewhere, I don’t see how we could agree in this.
“We face each other as God intended. Sportsmanlike. No bad faith arguments, no logical fallacies…fact against fact alone.”
“You mean…you’ll put down your anecdotal data and I’ll put down my cherry-picked personal experiences and we’ll try and convince each other of our points like civilized people?”
‘makes government fund them more’ … ‘rent cds and games and movies’
(So, they’re socialist BS that destroyed legit rental businesses with taxpayer money.)
Those rental businesses went out of business well before libraries were generally offering non-book media rentals…
Ah yes! It was libraries that killed my good ol’ hometown Blockbuster Video. It certainly could not have been market forces reacting to technological innovation to birth a multitude of subscription rental businesses available through increasingly faster internet connections.
Curse you libraries! You killed all the bookstores. And record shops too! Is there no end to your socialist devilry‽ Everyday I 🙏 thank the gods 🙏 that we haven’t socialized education. Such a thing would destroy the livelihoods of the great tutors who personally taught each and every one of us our letters and numbers.
“legit” lol
Yeah and totally not the rise of streaming and on-demand services
Read the room dude wtf
I refuse to believe that this is not a really weak troll.
Honestly that might describe their whole account.
I hope so, but it’s such a lame one. Just incoherent. Maybe someone prompted an AI to post troll comments, and it’s just doin’ its best.
Yeah, and hopefully their streaming services can put the little hometown Netflix out of business… and don’t get me started on their streaming services competing with ‘lil Bezos’ Audible…
Oh no.
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